[Maelstrom]

"Since they owed their admission in the first place to the approval of the other states then why shouldn't that permission also be necessary to walk away from the agreement?"


Welcome to the Hotel California.

The answer of course is simple: When a government becomes destructive to the means for which it was established, they refuse to allow you to walk away. Thus there are no enumerated powers to the government concerning secession AND several of the Founding Fathers often demonstrated this understanding by using the threat of secession as a means of pressuring the government.

[Non-Sequitur]

The answer of course is simple: When a government becomes destructive to the means for which it was established, they refuse to allow you to walk away.

Put the southern states didn't even try. They walked out without discussion, without negotiation.

Thus there are no enumerated powers to the government concerning secession...

And nothing in the Constitution supporting the idea of unilateral secession.